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Sunday, July 03, 2016 10:01 AM (permalink)
I'm just wondering if anyone else's 1080 FTW seems to completely ignore evga's set boost clock of 1860mhz out of the box? I was running heaven and valley benchmarks and noticed that out of the box with no changes made to stock clock speed, my card runs at 1936-1960mhz. I'm certainly not complaining about that, just wondering if anyone else's does that too.  

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    Re: Does your 1080 FTW do this? Sunday, July 03, 2016 10:43 AM (permalink)
    Never look a gift horse in the mouth

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    Re: Does your 1080 FTW do this? Sunday, July 03, 2016 11:42 AM (permalink)
    No but my Founders Edition can  I boost +165 over advertised 1733 boost clock. (Its the way GPU boost works, it started with Kepler chips)
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    Re: Does your 1080 FTW do this? Sunday, July 03, 2016 12:16 AM (permalink)
    That's how GPU Boost has always worked since it was introduced nearly a decade ago. You can absolutely end up with a card that never goes above that advertised Boost Clock, but the vast majority of them will exceed that boost clock. How much it exceeds the boost clock comes down to the "silicon lottery". That term has been around forever, and used to just refer to how well a particular card could be overclocked by the user. But with GPU Boost the cards will do that all on it's own.

    Anything at 100Mhz or more with GPU Boost is usually considered as "winning" that lottery. With the much higher clock speeds on Pascal cards, a free 100Mhz overclock isn't as much of a gain as it used to be, but it's still very nice.

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    Re: Does your 1080 FTW do this? Sunday, July 03, 2016 12:21 AM (permalink)
    This is normal for the new 1070/1080 cards because they have a new kind of boost that boosts higher unless it reaches a temperature limit or it would draw too much power. Except for the founders edition with its not-great-but-okay cooling, almost all other 1080s usually stay between 1910-1990MHz continuously with their air cooler. So your FTW is in the expected boost range. It's working exactly as it's intended to, neither better nor worse.
     
    I guess the specified boost clock speeds are only really valid for the Founders Edition, since this is the only card that doesn't boost as high continously out of the box. This is my main reason for not getting a Founders Edition card and waiting until the EVGA FTW is available in the EU - although technically speaking, any non-FE card would provide the same higher clock speed.
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    Re: Does your 1080 FTW do this? Sunday, July 03, 2016 12:31 AM (permalink)
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    This is normal for the new 1070/1080 cards because they have a new kind of boost that boosts higher unless it reaches a temperature limit or it would draw too much power. Except for the founders edition with its not-great-but-okay cooling, almost all other 1080s usually stay between 1910-1990MHz continuously with their air cooler. So your FTW is in the expected boost range. It's working exactly as it's intended to, neither better nor worse.
     
    I guess the specified boost clock speeds are only really valid for the Founders Edition, since this is the only card that doesn't boost as high continously out of the box. This is my main reason for not getting a Founders Edition card and waiting until the EVGA FTW is available in the EU - although technically speaking, any non-FE card would provide the same higher clock speed.



    They have been some tweaks to the GPU Boost, but it has always functioned that way for almost 10 years now, going all the way back to the 600 series. The FE will absolutely exceed the advertised boost speed, it's biggest limitation is it's cooling. None of the existing 10 series cards have any binning on the chips. Meaning a 1080 FE can exceed it's advertised boost speed more than a 1080 SC will, so long as it's kept cool.

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    Re: Does your 1080 FTW do this? Sunday, July 03, 2016 1:10 PM (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby EVGATech_RayH Sunday, July 03, 2016 1:23 PM
    Hello vidathedog,
     
    As others have already stated, this is the job of GPU Boost, which has been a function of the GTX series since the Kepler architecture was introduced.
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